Report on the Working Group set up to Study the Requirements for Operating the SPS within the INB Framework (INBOPS)

The convention signed with the French authorities for the LHC defines a new Installation Nucléaire de Base (INB). The LHC machine tunnel, the experiments, some buildings which cover access shafts to the machine and the SPS with its extraction lines up to the targets are all inside the new perimeter. The new convention came into effect in September 2000 and therefore the SPS fell within the new context from that time. As a consequence, SL has to operate the SPS within this new regulatory framework and a small working group was set up to look at the requirements and to estimate the resources required. The conclusions of the working group are reported in this paper

Dose equivalent measurements in a strongly pulsed high-energy radiation field

The stray radiation field outside the shielding of high-energy accelerators comprises neutrons, photons and charged particles with a wide range of energies. Often, accelerators operate by accelerating and ejecting short pulses of particles, creating an analogue, pulsed radiation field. The pulses can be as short as 10 mu s with high instantaneous fluence rates and dose rates. Measurements of average dose equivalent (rate) for radiation protection purposes in these fields present a challenge for instrumentation. The performance of three instruments (i.e. a recombination chamber, the Sievert Instrument and a HANDITEPC) measuring total dose equivalent is compared in a high-energy reference radiation field (CERF) and a strongly pulsed, high-energy radiation field at the CERN proton synchrotron (PS)